Aeolistic adjective1 •Pertaining to superfluous rhetorical flourishes; long-winded; bombastic.Even his letters, on the few occasions when he has recourse to such devices, are free of Aeolistic flourishes: "neither couched in bad Latin, nor yet graced by rhetorical tropes" (p. 252) — 1992 formsmore Aeolistic · more aeolistic · most Aeolistic · most aeolistic